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From: zhanglianjie <zhanglianjie@uniontech.com>
To: ltp@lists.linux.it
Subject: [LTP] [PATCH] Modify the test logic of mincore.
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2021 14:44:21 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e3eabee4-6616-84dc-cc8d-bc4f23228637@uniontech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YHgd/NDLJzz68uDl@yuki>

Hi!
>>> This does not make any sense, the kernel commit explicitly states that
>>> all mapped pages are reported as in core. We do call mlock() in the
>>> child, which will fault all the pages and lock them in memory. So the
>>> test should work both before and after the fix as well.
>>>
>>> The kernel commit in question weakened mincore() in a sense that it's
>>> more likely to report pages in core than it previously was. Now all that
>>> is needed is to fault the pages by reading some bytes from them to make
>>> sure they are reported as in core.
>>>
>>> If the test fails for you, something is probably broken at your end.
>>>
>>
>> Using the CVE patch on mips, the test will fail because the child
>> process mlocks all pages, but the parent process cannot obtain these
>> pages through mincore and is locked.
> 
> Sounds like a kernel bug.
> 
CVE list has provided repair patches, The patch I submitted this time is 
to modify the logic of the test results, do you plan to incorporate it?



  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-19  6:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-30 10:46 [LTP] [PATCH] Modify the test logic of mincore zhanglianjie
2021-04-12 14:41 ` Cyril Hrubis
2021-04-15  7:11   ` zhanglianjie
2021-04-15 11:05     ` Cyril Hrubis
2021-04-19  6:44       ` zhanglianjie [this message]
2021-04-19  9:05         ` Cyril Hrubis
2021-04-26 12:39           ` zhanglianjie
2021-04-26 12:50             ` Cyril Hrubis

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